'But no white man knows the land and the customs of the land as thou knowest.

How comes it this is true ?' 'What matter, Holy One ?--but remember it is only for a night or two.
Remember, I can change swiftly.

It will all be as it was when I first spoke to thee under Zam-Zammah the great gun--' 'As a boy in the dress of white men--when I first went to the Wonder House.

And a second time thou wast a Hindu.

What shall the third incarnation be ?' He chuckled drearily.